1962 · Low-Friction Total Hip · Work 1064 of 1,871
A small hospital workshop in Lancashire on a wet November evening, rain on a dark window, on a worn workbench under a green enamel lamp a highly polished steel hip stem sixteen centimetres long in a gentle boomerang curve with a flat collar, a short neck and a small mirror-bright ball two centimetres across, beside it a new white polyethylene cup six centimetres across with fine crossing grooves, curls of white shavings around it, a steel micrometer with a plain smooth barrel in a hand in a grey workshop coat sleeve, behind soft in focus a home-built test rig with a long lever arm and a hanging iron weight.